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Key contacts
Partner: Ik Hyun Seo
Quick facts
# Partners

4

# Other qualified practitioners

11

# Total number of lawyers

15

Languages

Korean, English, Japanese

Key practice areas
Intellectual property (asialaw)
Firm overview

Cho & Partners IP is a specialist intellectual property boutique established in 2002. The firm advises multinational companies on the protection, enforcement, and management of intellectual property rights in Korea.

Foreign multinational companies comprise virtually the entirety of the firm’s client base. This longstanding focus has given the firm a deep understanding of the legal, commercial, and strategic issues facing global businesses operating in Korea, as well as a perspective shaped by international business practices.

The firm provides counsel across a broad spectrum of intellectual property matters, including litigation, brand enforcement and anti-counterfeiting, customs and border measures, unfair competition, portfolio management, licensing, regulatory compliance, and IP-related transactions.

The firm is particularly recognized for its work on leading-edge and evolving issues, including trade dress protection, three-dimensional trademarks, product modification and upcycling, digital content enforcement, and other forms of non-traditional intellectual property.

The firm combines focused expertise with the responsiveness and practical approach valued by sophisticated multinational clients, delivering commercially grounded advice tailored to the Korean market.

Key practice areas
  • Intellectual property
Address:
6th Fl Classys Building
208 Teheran-ro Gangnam-gu, 06220
South Korea
Tel:+82 2 6207 6800 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://cholaw.com/
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Overview

IP-focused firm Cho & Partners IP was established in 2002 by partners Tae-Yeon Cho and Ik-Hyun Seo. It is widely recognised in the market for its high-quality representation, particularly in trademark litigation matters. Although the firm, led by the two partners, is not large in size, it punches above its weight with a stellar roster of multinational and domestic clients across a broad spectrum of sectors. The firm has a diverse offering in all aspects of IP, from trademark and patent prosecution to anti-counterfeiting and copyright matters. It has recently been active in domain name disputes, with Cho acting as outside counsel for the Internet Address Domain Name Dispute Resolution Committee. Seo is a panellist for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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